Total bridges
1,127
Public highway bridges in Collin County
County profile · official public datasets
Collin County, TX
1,127 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 67% rated Good, 32.9% Fair, 0.1% Poor.
- 1,127
- Public bridges
- 67%
- Good condition
- 0.1%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Collin County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 36%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0.1%
- Poor-condition share
- 1,127
- public highway bridges
- 1998
- avg year built
Poor is an FHWA condition category from the lowest applicable component rating (4 or below), not a live crossing-safety or closure decision. Rankings cover counties with at least five public highway bridges.
Collin County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Collin County ranks #89 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.1%). Collin County, Texas contains 1,127 public highway bridges. Roughly 67% are rated “Good,” 32.9% “Fair,” and 0.1% “Poor.” Poor means the lowest applicable deck, superstructure, substructure, or culvert rating is 4 or below on the 0–9 NBI scale. It is a condition category, not a live safety or closure decision.
Responsible agencies inspect covered bridges on risk-based intervals under current NBIS rules and submit inventory data to FHWA annually. The list below shows every NBI-tracked bridge in the county. Use the “Sort by” controls to change the ordering, and click any row for its reported inspection date, traffic count, and condition fields.
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory. See methodology for full definitions.
Good condition
67%
755 of 1,127 rated 7-9
Fair condition
32.9%
371 of 1,127 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0.1%
1 of 1,127 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#89 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 1,127 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 67% (755)
Fair 32.9% (371)
Poor 0.1% (1)
Collin County's Poor-condition bridges carry 500 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 0.1% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 500 crossings a day against 15,076 for a Good-condition one. A Poor rating is a condition category, not a closure or a live safety judgement; it means the lowest applicable component rating is 4 or below.
Computed over the 1,127 of 1,127 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
7% of Collin County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
79 of the 1,127 bridges with a recorded construction year were built in 1974 or earlier. Age alone is not a defect: a well-maintained older bridge can rate Good, and 67% of this county's inventory does. Even so, this older cohort is the population from which future Poor ratings are drawn, which is why the age profile below matters alongside the condition split above.
Cutoff derives from the 2024 release year minus a 50-year design life. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
One structure carries 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
STACY RD EB over COTTONWOOD CREEK, built 2001, carries 500 vehicles a day, the most of any Poor-rated structure here. The county's Poor-condition exposure is concentrated rather than evenly spread, so the 1-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 500 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Collin County's bridges were built
1,127 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 1
1920–1929
1 bridges
- 1930s 2
1930–1939
2 bridges
- 1940s 9
1940–1949
9 bridges
- 1950s 29
1950–1959
29 bridges
- 1960s 11
1960–1969
11 bridges
- 1970s 76
1970–1979
76 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
163 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
277 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
307 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
224 bridges
- 2020s 28
2020–2029
28 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 307 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 27.2% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1998, 18 years newer than the Texas average of 1980.
How Collin County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Collin County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.1% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1998 against a peer-group mean of 1991 is 7 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Williamson County | 1,170 | 67.4% | 32.2% | 0.3% | 1995 |
| Collin County (this page) | 1,127 | 67% | 32.9% | 0.1% | 1998 |
| Denton County | 991 | 57.8% | 41.3% | 0.9% | 1994 |
| Fort Bend County | 795 | 72.8% | 24.7% | 2.5% | 1998 |
| El Paso County | 783 | 54.4% | 44.8% | 0.8% | 1986 |
| McLennan County | 714 | 51.8% | 46.2% | 2% | 1980 |
Each share is of that county's own total tracked bridges; peers are the counties with 5 or more bridges whose inventory size is closest to Collin County's. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year
Two NBI-derived peer sets for Collin County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (1,127 bridges here).
- Tulsa County, OK · 1,135 bridges
- Riverside County, CA · 1,117 bridges
- Clark County, NV · 1,141 bridges
- Pima County, AZ · 1,150 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1998 here).
- Orange County, FL · avg 1998 · 885 bridges
- Pipestone County, MN · avg 1998 · 185 bridges
- Hyde County, NC · avg 1998 · 75 bridges
- Hertford County, NC · avg 1998 · 58 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (371)
GENOA CT
FairOver: TRIB TICKY CREEK
0.08 MI NW OF SAN REMO, Collin, TX
Built 1996 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 168
ALANIS DR
FairOver: TRIB MUDDY CREEEK
0.60 MI E OF SH 78, Collin, TX
Built 2006 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 4,400
PARK BLVD
FairOver: MUDDY CREEK BRANCH
0.6 MI E OF COUNTRY CLUB, Collin, TX
Built 2004 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 4,604
INTERNET BLVD
FairOver: STONEBRIAR CREEK
0.2 MI W OF DALLAS N TOLL, Collin, TX
Built 2000 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 230
W 15TH ST EB
FairOver: SPRING CREEK
0.10 MI W OF US 75, Collin, TX
Built 1980 Load: 38.1 t ADT: 20,699
W 15TH ST WB
FairOver: SPRING CREEK
0.10 MI W OF US 75, Collin, TX
Built 1980 Load: 38.1 t ADT: 20,699
US 75 NBML
FairOver: ROWLETT CREEK
1.90 MI S OF FM 2170, Collin, TX
Built 1992 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 82,600
US 75 SBML
FairOver: ROWLETT CREEK
1.90 MI S OF FM 2170, Collin, TX
Built 1992 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 80,567
US 75 SB FR
FairOver: ROWLETT CREEK
1.90 MI S OF FM 2170, Collin, TX
Built 1992 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 16,740
US 380 EB
FairOver: PILOT & SISTER GROVE REL
3.10 MI W OF SH 78, Collin, TX
Built 1976 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 9,696
SH 78
FairOver: POT RACK CREEK
2.60 MI N OF FM 2756, Collin, TX
Built 1979 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 4,682
SH 78
FairOver: INDIAN CRK REL (HICKORY)
0.75 MI N OF FM 2756, Collin, TX
Built 1979 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 4,682
SH 78
FairOver: INDIAN CREEK REL (SOUTH)
0.65 MI N OF FM 2756, Collin, TX
Built 1979 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 4,682
SH 78
FairOver: PRICE CREEK
0.65 MI N OF FM 6, Collin, TX
Built 1972 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 10,185
FM 982
FairOver: TICKEY CREEK
1.05 MI N OF FM 546, Collin, TX
Built 1974 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 6,176
FM 455
FairOver: E FORK TRINITY RIVER
0.25 MI W OF FM 3356, Collin, TX
Built 1992 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 1,477
FM 546
FairOver: E FORK TRINITY RIVER
5.60 MI E OF SH 5, Collin, TX
Built 1975 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 3,361
FM 3038
FairOver: WILSON CREEK
1.10 MI W OF US 75, Collin, TX
Built 1970 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 18,691
CR 222
FairOver: WHITES CREEK
0.80 MI E OF FM 3356, Collin, TX
Built 1996 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 100
W PARK BLVD
FairOver: WHITE ROCK CREEK
1.00 MI E OF DALLAS TLWY, Collin, TX
Built 1985 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 29,544
BETSY LN WB
FairOver: MAXWELL CREEK
0.20 MI E OF MURPHY RD, Collin, TX
Built 2006 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 1,000
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